JOB SUMMARY

SC Ventures is Standard Chartered’s innovation, fintech investment and ventures arm. We were established to reinvent banking, as the significant technological disruptions to the industry was impacting its ability to serve clients and customers, in the ways they needed to be served.

We are a unique ecosystem of innovators, banking experts, business builders and partners who are focused on rewiring the DNA in banking and bringing breakthrough ideas to scale, together.

We are building ecosystems around four high conviction themes: Online Economy & Lifestyle, SMEs & World Trade, Digital Assets, and Sustainability & Inclusion.

We are a global team of "Members" (excluding individual ventures), including dedicated colleagues from the Group's support functions, based in Singapore, Hong Kong, London, and the United Arab Emirates

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy
•    Lead content strategy and execution across digital channels, design and execute signature events (both online and offline), in collaboration with the broader platform and portfolio, to drive awareness, growth and engagement 
•    Integrate both content and events as part of a broader funnel marketing strategy to help nurture leads from target audience segments, for both the platform and ventures  

Business
Content Marketing
•    Create digital content marketing strategy and supporting execution roadmap across web, social, newsletters, and thought leadership platforms 
•    Develop compelling, high-quality content that showcases our brand, story, partnerships and ventures, executed through a detailed content calendar 
•    Evaluate current baseline of content and establish best-in-class standards, through competitive reviews 
•    Help create content/calendar templates for scaling with ventures 
•    Build clear understanding of target audience segments, their content preferences and channels to access them 
•    Manage content creation sources – whether internal team, agencies, designers and influencers/partners to help fill content gaps 
•    Identify key channels (online, social media) for content amplification and tailor content accordingly 
•    Implement SEO best practices
•    Explore new digital innovation formats & channels for content dissemination 
•    Review content performance on regular basis and optimize as needed 
•    Maintain content governance and best practice standards 

Events Marketing 
•    Design and execute events that strengthen our ecosystem – across a wide range of channels and formats 
•    Oversee all aspects of event planning; concept, partnerships, programming, logistics and promotion 
•    Collaborate with key stakeholders and partners to deliver high impact experiences 
•    Leverage event content for ongoing marketing and brand storytelling 

Regulatory & Business Conduct

•    Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
•    Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

Internal:
•    SC Ventures Operating Members 
•    SC Ventures Functional Team Members – to help operationalize venture commercialization 
•    SC Ventures CABM 
•    SCB Group 
•    Broader ecosystem of fintech stakeholders and partners 
•    External agencies (where applicable)

External:
•    Relevant external regulator

Other Responsibilities
•    Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in the business and SC Ventures; 
•    Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.

Qualifications

•    5+ years of experience in content and event marketing, ideally in a venture/startup environment 
•    High level of writing and storytelling skills, with an eye for tone, structure ad brand consistency 
•    Proven experience in planning and executing events that drive engagement and business impact 
•    Strong project management and organizational skills 
•    Self-starter, ability to work and thrive within a fast-paced, culturally diverse and evolving environment

Role Specific Technical Competencies
•    Brand Awareness
•    Marketing Strategies and Channels
•    Public Affairs and the Regulatory Framework

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.